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The Teachings Of "Jehovah's Witnesses"
THE RANSOM FOR ALL?
The most incorrect teaching of the Jehovah's Witnesses is that Jesus gave Himself a ransom price only "for believing mankind," and that this "believing mankind" refers to their numbers only. In this they join the Calvinistic denominations of Great Babylon who say that only the elect are to be saved. They otherwise state this phrase as "for obedient men" or "obedient believing ones on earth," but not as a ransom for ALL, as the Bible does in 1 Tim. 2:5, 6; 4:10 and Heb. 2:9. Notice how the Apostle puts the matter: "we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe" (1 Tim. 4:10). A ransom here is a CORRESPONDING PRICE as per the Greek lutron anti. Therefore, these passages refer to Adam and all his posterity as being included in the ALL. In their Feb. 1, 1954, Watchtower, they try to make void the Word by adding three words to 1 Tim. 2:6, "who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all KINDS OF PEOPLE." Even those not expert in Greek can see from an Interlinear Text such as the Emphatic Diaglott or Berry's Interlinear Greek-English New Testament, that there are no corresponding words in the Greek for the words "kinds of people." Among many translations, we find these three added words only in a footnote in the J.W.'s own New World Translation.
In their blindness on this subject the J.W.'s fail to distinguish between universal salvation from Adamic condemnation for Adam and all his race for whom Christ died, and who therefore must all receive a resurrection from the ransom price paid for them, which is taught in the Scriptures, 1 Tim. 2:4; Rom. 5:18, and universal salvation unto eternal life, which is nowhere taught in the Scriptures. Therefore there is salvation and deliverance from the Adamic curse promised, even for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They will be brought back from the sleep of Adamic death in the resurrection awakening of both the just and the unjust (Acts 24:15), for Jesus died for them also, seeing they were in Adam's loins when he sinned (Ezek. 16:48-50, 53-63). Contrary to this, the J.W.'s openly contradict the Word of God here and in Matt. 10:14, 15, where Jesus shows that it will be more tolerable or more endurable, for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for those who sin against greater light; for they speak of the "utter impossibility of a ransom for unbelievers or those willfully wicked, because Sodom and Gomorrah were irrevocably condemned and destroyed, beyond any possible recovery"!! Of course, if any sin willfully and it is persevered in after being saved from the Adamic condemnation and coming to a knowledge of the Truth, either in this Age or the next, the Scriptures hold out no hope of eternal life for them (Heb. 6:4-6; 10:26, 31); but all will have one full and complete opportunity to gain everlasting life. The ransom is only "from the power of the grave" (Hosea 13:14), and the Scriptures nowhere teach "a ransom to everlasting life," as the Watchtower does (1954; p. 84).
To show further how the J.W.'s deny the ransom for ALL, and to give more relative Scripture testimony, we present here some questions and answers from our BIBLE STANDARD magazine:
QUESTION: Why do the Jehovah's Witnesses deny that Christ died for Adam and his entire race?
ANSWER: It is not because of their having any Scriptural basis for such a denial, for the Scriptures do not deny, but rather confirm Christ's ransom price as applicable for Adam and his entire race. They deny this Bible doctrine because it is denied by their "CHANNEL," their theological headquarters. They have become open to this denial as an outflow of a number of errors—that all the clergy and principals of the flock, and all who die in Armageddon go into the Second Death; their "OTHER SHEEP" generating the restitution class in the Millennium (first by resurrection and then by their further procreation), which would logically make it unnecessary for all of Adam's non-elect descendants to return from the tomb. This "NEW LIGHT" is in most striking opposition to the Ransom and grossly contradicts the three fundamental doctrines of salvation: (1) God's love and provision for everybody for salvation; (2) Jesus' death for everybody for salvation; and (3) the Spirit's work for everybody for salvation. Numerous Scriptures prove these three propositions. Let us briefly look at the main ones on each of these three points:
1. GOD PROVIDES SALVATION FOR ALL
For, God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son to save it (John 3:16, 17). He commends His love to the race by giving Christ to die for the ungodly (Rom. 5:6-8). His love for the world makes Him determine to save all men from the Adamic sentence, and bring them to an exact knowledge of the Truth (1 Tim. 2:4). He therefore, is the Savior of all men from that sentence (1 Tim. 4:10). His love is the grace of God that "has appeared, bringing salvation for all men" (Tit. 2:11; the literal translation is within the quotation marks). His love for all by salvation has expressed itself in giving Christ to die for mankind, as we read in Tit. 3:4: "The kindness and love of God, our Savior, toward man appeared." Certainly these and numerous other passages teach that God loves all men for salvation and provides for it.
2. JESUS DIED FOR EVERYONE
Our Lord's death for the whole sinful race is most graphically and prophetically described in Isa. 53:4-12. He is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world—Adam's sin, participated in by the entire race—since they die for his sin, it must be his sin that is taken away (John 1:29). Jesus said that if He were lifted up from the earth He would favorably influence all men to Himself (John 12:32, 33). As Adam's sin and disobedience brought sin and death to all men, so Christ's obedience and righteousness will bring cancellation of that sin and death, to enable all to gain the right to life (Rom. 5:18, 19). Jesus' ransom was laid down for all men, which makes Him the Mediator for all humans (1 Tim. 2:5, 6). He by God's love and grace tasted death for every man, and for this purpose had to be made Adam's corresponding price (Heb. 2:8, 9). He is the satisfaction to God's justice, not only for the Church's, but also for the world's sins (1 John 2:2). Justice condemned Adam and is later satisfied.
3. THE SPIRIT'S WORK FOR SALVATION
As a result of God's love that gave Christ to be a ransom for all men, and of Christ's death for all men, the Spirit's work for salvation will, in the Millennium, extend to all the non-elect of Adam's race without exception. Very many, indeed, are the Scriptures teaching this thought, of which we will cite a comparative few: The Christ, as the Seed of Abraham, in doing the Millennial Spirit's work, will bless for salvation purposes all the families, kindreds and nations of the earth (Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18). At Christ's Millennial asking, God will give Him the nations and the ends of the earth [all mankind] as His inheritance and possession (Psa. 2:8). All the ends of the earth, all the kindreds of the nations and all that go down to the dust [all the Adamically dead] shall turn to, worship and bow down before the Lord (Psa. 22:27-29). God made all nations, and these will Millennially worship and glorify Him (Psa. 86:9). God will reveal His plan to all; and the whole world will see it (Psa. 98:2, 3). All nations will become parts of God's Kingdom (Isa. 2:2). Jesus as the true Light will teach the Truth to every human that comes into the world (John 1:9). So, these three points completely refute the Jehovah's Witnesses in their denial of the ransom price as applicable for Adam and his entire race.
QUESTION: Was the ransom price given for Adam? I am told that he was not deceived; that he was a willful sinner, and, therefore, the ransom was not given for him.
ANSWER: The Bible teaches that Jesus was an exact equivalent of Adam. Adam sinned willfully and the race died in him, according to 1 Tim. 2:14, compared with Rom. 5:12-14. Jesus died to overcome all the effects of Adam's willful sin; and Adam's willful sin made him and the race in his loins legally dead before Divine Justice. Therefore, the whole race became involved in Adam's willful sin; and God so regards it. Jesus died for this willful sin of Adam and his race. Adam's debt to Divine Justice was a perfect human body, life, right to life, and life-rights; and these are exactly what Jesus gave up in laying down the ransom. Since nobody else but Adam had these four perfect things, these four perfect things that Jesus gave up to be a corresponding price must have been given up FOR Adam.
Divine Justice requires an exact equivalent for a debt; and the only person, apart from Jesus, who had a perfect human body, life, right to life, and life-rights was Adam. Consequently, in giving the ransom, Adam was the only one for whom the equivalent price could be given directly by Jesus. As a matter of fact, if Adam was not to be redeemed, God could not have asked for a perfect human being to be a corresponding price; for Jesus is not an equivalent of the imperfect race, considered apart from Adam. Hence, there would not have been an equivalent price furnished for the fallen race, unless the fallen race is considered a part of Adam, as in his ability for procreation, redeemed in Adam; for one perfect human being is not the corresponding price for billions of imperfect human beings considered in themselves alone. If Adam is not in the equation, then each human being would have need of an individual Savior in order to be redeemed. It is only as these billions of imperfect human beings are considered as having been perfect, in the procreative ability of perfect Adam, that God could have required a perfect human being as the corresponding price, in whose potential creative ability was a perfect race. This, therefore, proves Adam was the direct subject of the ransom. The rest of the race was only indirectly involved in the ransom, because they were in Adam's power of procreation, and for them Jesus gave an unborn perfect race in His potential power to generate the race as a perfect man.
In Heb. 2:7, 9 Adam and Jesus are presented as the only two men crowned with glory and honor, being perfect in the image and likeness of God; and so it is that Jesus is shown to be an exact equivalent of Adam; and He as a result gave Himself to "taste death for every man." Adam was a member of the human race, and therefore was included in Jesus' ransom, for 1 Tim. 2:5, 6 tells us that Jesus died for "ALL," hence for every member of the human race. According to Heb. 2:7, 9, Adam was the only one crowned with glory and honor, for whom Jesus, as another crowned with human glory and honor could directly die. It will be noticed that v. 8 shows us that the rest of the human race are not crowned with glory and honor, which, therefore, means that Jesus was an equivalent of Adam and therefore, ransomed Adam and the race as it was in Adam's power of generation. The two passages above explained, directly involve the ransom as centered in Adam; and it is on the basis of Jesus having provided the ransom for Adam that Paul gives us the contrast between Adam's effects on the race and Jesus' effects on the race, in 1 Cor. 15:21, 22, and in Rom. 5:15-19.
Jesus' ability to undo the consequences of Adam's sin for the world, as these two passages show, is based on the fact that He, before Divine Justice, makes good for Adam's willful sin and the race's participation in it while in Adam's procreative power. Therefore, the ransom must involve Adam. If it did not, there would be no possibility of removing the effects of his sin before Divine Justice, as these effects involve the race. It should, therefore, be repeated that Jesus' sacrifice atones for Adam's willful sin and the share the race had in it; as it also atones for all of the effects that come from that willful sin upon Adam and Adam's race, the weaknesses and ignorance resulting therefrom.
It is, therefore, an insincere misteaching to say that our Lord's death is only for the cancellation of sins of weakness and ignorance. It is true that it does effect the cancellation of our sins of weakness and ignorance; but it also cancels the guilt of Adam's willful sin, as that guilt involved him and us; and, therefore, Jesus' ransom is to undo Adam's willfulness and the race's involvement in that sin. If Jesus' death does not atone for Adam's willful sin, because of its willfulness, then it does not atone for the race's share in that willful sin, the race being a part of Adam; hence we would not be redeemed from the sentence upon that willful sin as participants in it by virtue of our being in Adam's generative process when he sinned willfully; and so, however much our sins of weakness and ignorance would be atoned for by Jesus' death, we would have no deliverance from the original sentence upon Adam and his race for his willful sin. Hence this error makes salvation impossible. To deny that Jesus ransoms Adam is to directly deny the most fundamental part of the ransom—ITS BEING THE EXACT CORRESPONDING PRICE FOR ADAM.
PASTOR RUSSELL AT VARIANCE WITH THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
QUESTION: If Adam has had a trial and failed, will he have another and if so, what for? Why should he be resurrected if he failed in the first trial?
ANSWER: From Pastor Russell in a 1909 Convention Question Meeting (What Pastor Russell Said, p. 6): The reason that he is to have a resurrection and another trial is because God willed it so, and that is the very best reason. Now, if you want to know why, we may do some guessing, perhaps, to our advantage.
I think the reason God willed it so is that in some respects Adam did not have a trial under the most favorable conditions that God could have arranged, although this trial was a just trial. He was fully equipped mentally, but a great temptation came to him, and because of the lack of experience he failed. What was the trial or temptation?
You remember that the Apostle tells us that Adam was not deceived; he knew what he was doing, that he was eating the forbidden fruit, violating God's command, and that it meant death. There was no ignorance about it. Why did he do it? I think the narrative bears out the thought that he did it because of sympathetic love. He had been without a wife, and while the various kinds of birds could twitter, and the other animals could make some commotion, such were not satisfactory to man; so after God gave him a wife, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, and he had enjoyed that sweet companionship, and he realized that he would lose her and that he would be alone again after she disobeyed, he said, I will eat with her and die with her. If she must go out in the unprepared earth and die, so will I. So, really this is a very noble feature of the first man's character, and the condition of his trial, you will see, made it a very severe trial. Now, then, I think it would be just like our Heavenly Father to say; Adam, at the time you did that, you did not know fully what I could or would do for you, and what you might have had at the time if you had been obedient. Now, Adam, I intend to redeem you and your entire race. You will have a demonstration of my love, and after you have learned of the height and depth and length and breadth of my love, I will expect you fully and perfectly to keep my law and live forever, but if you do not obey, then you will die the SECOND DEATH and will never have another opportunity for restitution.
We do not hold any animosity toward our Jehovah's Witness brethren; but wish for them each the greatest blessing they can presently receive. We do insist, despite their claim, that we do not hold to or believe the Bible to teach universal salvation for all any more than we believe Adam is lost. We are not "second chancers" except in the case of Adam; on which Jehovah Himself will place the second chance through His grace.
The J.W.'s teach many other errors, some of which are very serious. The few herein considered should be enough to convince the unbiased reader that the J.W.'s teach some thoughts very contrary to Scripture, reason and facts, and that they have built up a system of error and a false theology, by which they are captivated, and through which, by a sectarian appeal and the use of fear, they seek to captivate others. They still have some Biblically proven, irrefutable truths that they have inherited from the true teachers of the past, but they have entangled many errors that are contrary to the firm foundations laid for us in God's Holy Word, and therefore at times have somewhat thrown out the baby with the bathwater. We caution all against involvement in their sectarian errors.
We do not deny that the great time of trouble is now working in earth's society (Dan. 12:1, 4; Matt. 24:21), that Satan is being bound and his empire is in the process of being overthrown, that "a new heavens and a new earth" (2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21), with Christ's reign of peace, is being ushered in, and that some will live through this great day of trouble into the New World without first sleeping in death, for "except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved" (Matt. 24:22). As the regular readers of our BIBLE STANDARD magazine well know, we firmly believe in God's Kingdom on earth, for which we have prayed and longed for, and it will in God's due time come, in which His will is to be done in earth as it is in heaven! We look forward to associating with the faithful brethren of the J.W.'s during the thousand years of the Millennial Kingdom. Praise be to God for such a prospect.
The Teachings of "Jehovah's Witnesses":
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Two people contract pneumonic plague in China
ABOVE: Two people contract pneumonic plague in China
Officials say two people in China are being treated for the plague — the same one that caused the Black Death pandemic in the 1300s.
The two patients, from a province in Inner Mongolia, were diagnosed with pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, state-run news outlet Xinhua reports.
They are being treated in Beijing's Chaoyang District.
READ MORE: Deadly outbreak of the plague is spreading in Madagascar and it could get worse
Back in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague, one of the three types of plagues caused by the bacterium, AFP reported at the time.
They reportedly ate raw kidney from a marmot as part of a local folk remedy thought to promote good health.
The two deaths in May resulted in a quarantine of the area for six days, which prevented tourist groups from leaving the region.
"After the quarantine , not many people, even locals, were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," 24-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer Sebastian Pique told AFP.
The bacteria is typically transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, CNN reports. The plague comes in three forms: pneumonic, which affects the lungs; bubonic, which affects the lymph nodes; and septicemic, which affects the blood.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says if pneumonic plague is left untreated, it is always fatal. The global organization reported 3,248 cases of the disease from 2010 to 2015, including 584 deaths.
According to the Guardian, the WHO said it understood that close contacts of the two patients were being screened and managed.
"The National Health Commission are implementing efforts to contain and treat the identified cases and increasing surveillance," Fabio Scano of WHO China said.
READ MORE: 'You can never be completely prepared' — How scientists spot the next pandemic
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Peru are the three countries in which pneumonic plague is most endemic.
In 2015, two people in Colorado died from the plague, Fox 13 reports. According to the broadcast station, there were eight reported cases in the state in 2014.
At least one person dies every year from the plague in Mongolia, likely from eating raw meats, the National Center for Zoonotic Disease reports.
The Black Death was one of the most deadly diseases to ever affect humankind. From 1347 to 1351, it is estimated to have wiped out anywhere from 75 million to 200 million people.

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Desperate Housewives: 8x9
Gabrielle, thinking the worst, goes on a frenzied search for Carlos after he unexpectedly checks out of rehab. Meanwhile, a desolate Bree goes on a drinking binge and finds herself in a desperate situation.
Secrets That I Never Want to Know Sep. 25, 2011
Making the Connection Oct. 02, 2011
Watch While I Revise the World Oct. 09, 2011
School of Hard Knocks Oct. 16, 2011
The Art of Making Art Oct. 23, 2011
Witch Oct. 30, 2011
Always in Control Nov. 06, 2011
Suspicion Song Nov. 13, 2011
Putting It Together Dec. 04, 2011
What Jan. 08, 2012
Who Can Say What Jan. 15, 2012
Is This What You Call Love? Feb. 12, 2012
Get Out of My Life Feb. 19, 2012
She Needs Me Mar. 04, 2012
You Take for Granted Mar. 11, 2012
Women and Death Mar. 18, 2012
Any Moment Mar. 25, 2012
With So Little To Be Sure Of Apr. 01, 2012
Lost My Power Apr. 29, 2012
The People Will Hear May. 06, 2012
Give Me the Blame May. 13, 2012
Finishing the Hat May. 13, 2012


SALT LAKE CITY — The proposal is pretty simple…if you make 300 percent of the federal poverty rate or less, have a car that fails emissions tests in a county that requires them, and is a 2003 model or older, the state may soon offer you up to $6,500.00 to buy a newer car.
House Bill 295, sponsored by Representative Jeffrey Stenquist would provide financial help to Utah families, but it's really a clean air bill.
According to Glade Soward, Policy Analyst with the Utah Division of Air Quality, one tier one car (2003 or older) spews as much pollution as 30 tier three cars (2017 or newer).


The production of the Ruhrtriennale festival under the direction of Heiner Goebbels features the first restaging of Louis Andriessen's musical theater De Materie since its premiere in 1989. Born in 1939 Andriessen is now one of the key figures on the contemporary Dutch art scene. De Materie, whose restaging is now being supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, reflects the interlinking contexts between material, spirit and society in a changing array of perspectives akin to four comprehensive chapters of a book or the movements of a symphony. Each of the four quite separate parts processes very disparate fragments of mainly Dutch texts dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries: the political document of the Dutch declaration of independence from 1581, a list taken from a book on shipbuilding by Nicolaes Witsen dating from 1690, a philosophical essay on the natural sciences by David Gorlaeus from 1651, the eroto-religious vision of a mystic and nun from the 13th century, an art history manifesto from the start of the 20th century, a private note of memories of Piet Mondriaan, a poem from the 19th century, a diary and a public speech by Nobel prizewinner Marie Curie. Here individual experience repeatedly encounters the principle: the nun encounters God, the mistress encounters Piet Mondriaan dubbed the "Dancing Madonna" and also the principles of Constructivist art and the brilliant physicians Pierre and Marie Curie encounter radioactivity. With its impressive dimensions the industrial Kraftzentrale venue in the landscape park Landschaftspark Duisburg forms the suitable setting for the staging of De Materie care of Heiner Goebbels and his team.


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Greetings capsuleers and welcome to the first Launcher Dev Blog in a while!
We have some launcher updates scheduled in the coming weeks that we wanted to share with you, and would really appreciate it if you could try out the new beta and share your feedback with us.
The biggest change to the launcher is a completely new layout, as such in this update we will be auto-resizing to the default layout. With this layout, users can now scale the window to best fit their needs by simply dragging the edge of the window and expanding or shrinking the launcher.
With this update to the launcher we have overhauled the authentication process, reducing possible points of failure for login - and refreshing your information - by dropping a service that for a long time was required to handle communication between the launcher application and EVE authentication service (SSO).
Aside from streamlining the authentication process, there are a handful of extra changes we are making to hopefully make the launcher a little better for everyone.
With the launcher update, we are getting rid of the toggle for starting multiple accounts and introducing "Launch Groups". With this feature you will be able to assign accounts to your own custom launch groups, in turn allowing you to launch the accounts you desire for the activities you want to participate in. Accounts can be assigned to many launch groups and you can have as many launch groups as you need.
Since changing from the iframe that was used for logging in, to the current pop out window, one of the big features people have been requesting back is the "Remember Me" checkbox. We have added this back to the login window.
1) The "Remember Me?" option that is displayed at the login page.
3) Enabling the "Automatically remember accounts after login" option in the Launcher settings menu. This option, while enabled, will result in the account being remembered, even if the checkbox in the first option we mentioned here is not checked.
If you decide that you no longer want the launcher to remember your accounts, you can either remove individual accounts from the Account Settings menu, or take the Nuclear option and use the "Forget All Accounts" option in the Launcher Settings menu.
We would also like to clarify that the thumbtack icon is no longer a button, but when visible next to an account represents that "remember account" has been enabled for said account.
The update will have a new option in Settings called "Enable launcher UI debug logs". This adds lots of information to the log stream for the Launcher UI to help us investigate issues that may be encountered, however it has a drawback of being more resource intensive. We are asking that you only enable this option if requested for extra information on bug reports or support tickets.
There will also be a handful of defect fixes with the update, including a fix for the defect where the launcher does not update without a restart. After the update, the launcher should update to the latest deployed client without any need to restart.
Great! When can I try it out?
Click the "E" in the top right of the launcher (marked red).
Click the "Settings" option in the menu that appears (marked green).
A window will appear, as shown above.
Switch to the beta option in the dropdown (marked orange).
Click OK to return to the launcher (marked blue).
This will switch you to the beta build of the launcher. Now simply click the update option on the left of the launcher (pictured below), to update to the new beta launcher.
If at any point you'd like to switch back to the release version of the launcher, you can do so by following the same steps above and selecting "release" from the dropdown.
Do I have to relog all my accounts?
When we update the Release branch of the launcher with the new code, we will migrate all accounts you have pinned over to the new launcher. If they are not pinned, we have nothing to migrate for you and you must log in anyway.
For this release we've been taking onboard feedback to address known defects and improve the login experience, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on what we should focus on in future. Be sure to use the comments section of this blog, along with the CSM feedback forum to ensure your voice is heard, as we'll be meeting with the CSM when they visit in late February.
Thanks for taking the time to read up on the new launcher, we hope you'll enjoy the latest updates and we look forward to hearing your feedback.


The main design activities in a Concurrent Design study are performed by the design team within the frame of an Engineering Model. This section describes the different Study Phases that an engineering model can have and the different allowed actions for these phases.
More information is given in the related topics of developing engineering models, and how combinations of Model Kinds and Study Phases can be typically used in engineering models.
Note that an engineering model has to be in the design sessions phase to be able to create iterations.
A main reason for the Study Phase of engineering models is to provide an indication to the users of its status and by extension also the status of the design information contained in it. The Study Phase loosely linked to the concept of the Model Kind of an engineering model.
The study phases are mainly applicable to an engineering model that is of the Model Kind Study Model. For this, an engineering model would start in the Preparation Phase to perform preliminary engineering tasks with a core team.
Typically, while performing the Concurrent Design Activity on this model, it will go through the consecutive phases, i.e. the Design Sessions Phase and the Reporting Phase. Note that an engineering model has to be in the design sessions phase to be able to create iterations.
After the Concurrent Design Activity has ended, it can be set to Completed Study. This will indicate to all users that have access to this engineering model that it has gone through the full design process cycle. It can therefore be expected to contain a full model with identified options, element definitions and usages, defined states, parameters (and their subscriptions) with the corresponding values for which the publications and iterations provide an audit trail for their evolution.
Such a Completed Study engineering model may well provide a basis for e.g. Template Models, provide new inputs to existing or newly created Catalogue Models, or copied to create a new Scratch or Study Model.
For more details, see the description of their typical use in engineering models.
A person with the access right Modify on the class Engineering Model Setup is allowed to edit the Study Phase of an engineering model.
To edit the Study Phase of an engineering model, select the Edit Engineering Model Setup icon or in the context menu select Edit. On the Basic tab, edit the Study Phase. After making the required changes, click Ok.
For the impact of changing the Study Phase, see the description of their typical use in engineering models.


Mahinda Rajapaksa, to his credit, has not exactly claimed sole credit for the victory, although he more than anyone else arguably has the bragging rights, as all powerful Executive President and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
But who was the true hero, then? An email doing the rounds these days of over-enthusiasm, braggadocio, fantasizing and vilification, speaks of a forgotten individual that brings perspective to this entire and ugly spectacle: the unnamed, faceless soldier who died to make it possible for two men and their supporters to argue over who did what and where and when and how and to whom.
What of the Ranaviruva today, I wonder. What of the tens of thousands who perished to defend the Motherland, to ride the country of the menace called terrorism, to ensure that bombs would not explode, that fathers and mothers would not have to worry if they'll ever see their children again when leave home? Who did they die for? What did they die for?
We are told that they died (apart from what was mentioned above) to protect the territorial integrity of the country, to keep intact our sovereignty, to prevent the division of the country and preserve our freedoms. The true victor, the true deserver of credit is no more.
So when we assess what the dead achieved or helped achieve with death we have to view the reality they left behind and the reality that politics may bring about.
I am thinking about our Ranaviruva to whom we all owe so much. I am wondering what kind of thoughts would go through their afterlife-minds if they were to cast gaze on the land they died to protect.
Let us suppose that Sarath Fonseka contrary to all opinion polls wins the election. We would have a President who has pledge to re-merge the North and East. We would have a President who has given a new lease of life to the Eelam Project now honour-bound to deliver on promise, the kappam or 'pound of flesh' for having helped him become President.
Our Ranaviruva would find that the proxies of the terrorists who killed him have secured through Fonseka what Prabhakaran could not achieve with guns.
He would find that Fonseka the politician has undone everything that Fonseka the soldier claims to have achieved for the Motherland. He would find to his horror that the Eelam myth and the notion of an exclusive Tamil homeland have been legislated into fact by Fonseka the politician.
The Ranaviruva cannot be faulted if he turned around and asked Fonseka 'What was that long drawn out war about, General?' I think he would say something like this to Fonseka, after saluting him of course.
'Sir, with all due respect, could you tell me why you made me fight and die to secure something that you now want to give back to what's left of the LTTE? Could you tell me, General, why you got me killed if you really believed that these two provinces actually belonged to Tamils and no one else? Sir, if that was the case, why did we fight in the first place?
'Sir, did you really believe when you ordered us to march into the arms of possible death that the North and East should be re-merged? Were you upset Sir when Chief Justice Sarath N Silva determined that the merger was unconstitutional? Sir, could you tell me what the JVP is telling now about the North and East, mergers, de-mergers and re-mergers and what kind of expressions are in the faces of Sarath N Silva, Tilvin and Somawansa when such issues are discussed? I almost forgot Sir, and please don't think I am being cheeky, but tell me if your tongue is in your cheek?


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The Look Of Love (Pt. 1)
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Writer: Martin Fry, Mark White, Stephen Singleton, David Palmer
Composer: Martin Fry, Mark White, Stephen Singleton, David Palmer
When your world is full of strange arrangements And gravity won't pull you through You know you're missing out on something Well that something depends on you All I'm saying It takes a lot to love you All I'm doing You know it's true All I mean now There's one thing yes one thing That turns this gray sky to blue (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye) Then your dreams fall apart at the seams Your reason for living's, your reason for leaving Don't ask me what it means (Who got the look) I don't know the answer to that question (Where's the look) If I knew I would tell you What's the look Look for your information Yes there's one thing, the one thing That still holds true (What's that) (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love (That's the look, that's the look) The look of love If you judge a book by the cover Then you judge the look by the lover I hope you'll soon recover Me I go from one extreme to another And all my friends just might ask me They say, "Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love" And I say, maybe there must be a solution to The one thing, the one thing we can't find (That's the look, that's the look) Sisters and brothers (That's the look, that's the look) Should help each other (That's the look, that's the look) Heavens above (That's the look, that's the look) Hip hip hooray aye (That's the look, that's the look) Yippie aiy yippee yaye (That's the look, that's the look) Be lucky in love Look of love
David Gerald Palmer, Martin David Fry, Mark Andrew White, Stephen Barry Singleton
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
This track is on the 10 following albums:
Dance #1's
Music For Eighties
True 80's Love
Plásticos Y Decibelios: 30 Aniversario
Fetenhits - The Real 80's
The Look Of Love - The Very Best Of ABC
Hamlet 2 (Music from the Motion Picture)
80s Triple Set
80's (International Version)


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Enabling Trump: Let's Name Covid Vaccine After Trump So He Doesn't Feel So Sad
I have never understood the bizarre need of Trump loyalists have to protect the President from facing the truth as if he weren't an adult who has to face disappointment like any other living person on the earth. This has been an ongoing complaint of mine during his time in the presidency. Die-hard supporters seem incapable of treating the sitting President of the United States as an adult and holding his feet to the fire like they would a Democratic president. This bootlicking is destructive to the Republican Party, and it will likely take many years for the Party to extricate itself from the tentacles of Trumpism and remake itself into something that actually provides a stable and reasonable tent under which right-of-center voters might once again feel at home. As it now stands, however, the Republican Party has become an organization that has willingly, with eyes wide open, supported the dishonesty, corruption, and destructive behavior of a President determined to harm our nation since the election results were announced. (I'm being charitable with the time frame here.) Because of that, the GOP has sacrificed much of its credibility. The unyielding support and adulation of Trump and all manner of Trumpism has come at a great price. The denial of reality is one thing, but the need to buffer him from said reality does him no favors. And in turn, it does the nation at large no favors as well. On the contrary…
With that in mind, Geraldo Rivera made an appearance on Fox and Friends today, and suggested – incredibly – that, to ease Trump's suffering, the Covid vaccine should be named after him:
President Speaking on Friday morning's Fox & Friends, Rivera suggested naming the COVID-19 vaccine after Trump so he doesn't feel so bad about himself. Rivera said: "With the world so divided and everybody telling him he's got to give up and it's time to leave and time to transition and all the rest of it, why not name the vaccine 'The Trump?' Make it like, 'Have you gotten your Trump yet?' It would be a nice gesture to him, and, years from now, it would become just a kind of generic name."
**turns on Fox & Friends**
"Why not name the vaccine the Trump, make it — have you gotten your Trump yet? It would be a nice gesture to him." pic.twitter.com/K64Mw8J6Vk
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 20, 2020
As a reminder, Pfizer did not accept government money for the development of their vaccine.
Filed under: WAH-WAH-WAH!
44 Responses to "Enabling Trump: Let's Name Covid Vaccine After Trump So He Doesn't Feel So Sad"
Enablers all.
Dana (6995e0) — 11/20/2020 @ 3:20 pm
Pricked by Trump; two shots!?!
OUCH! 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/20/2020 @ 3:26 pm
Whichever is named after Trump, I'll have the other one.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 11/20/2020 @ 3:40 pm
This bootlicking is destructive to the Republican Party
I continue to be amazed that the GOP officeholders cannot see this. At this point, Romney should leave the party and then dare everyone else to choose sides.
Well, Trump is a prick.
At this point, Romney should leave the party and then dare everyone else to choose sides.
WIt's amazing how incredibly normal and appealing of a statesman Romney is. At one point I would have said that about any number of Republicans, but in this season of Trumpism we have seen a lot of those once-notable Republicans whittle down the list by their own sycophancy. Romney stands nearly alone.
@5. Stormy sees 😉 :
In the 16th and 17th centuries, "my prick" was used as a term of endearment by 'immodest maids' for their boyfriends. – source ,wikioyvey
Since you think that's a relevant point, note that Moderna (with their more effective vaccine) did.
I'm against naming anything after politicians. (Writing this after driving home on the George Bush Turnpike.)
beer 'n pretzels (042d67) — 11/20/2020 @ 4:16 pm
So Giuliani's son caught the COVID, and with Giuliani's massive amounts of flop-sweat yesterday, makes me wonder if he caught it, too.
Paul Montagu (77c694) — 11/20/2020 @ 4:37 pm
Memo to Geraldo:
He'll get a U.S. postage stamp when he dies.
And, eventually, a yugggggge multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier w/his name on it- though not in gold letters. But it'll still have a lot of brass aboard. 😉
@9. Like father; like son: Donnie Jr., tested positive fo Covid today, too.
Since the media named everything bad over the last four years after Trump it wouldn't be unfair.
In Frisco they tried to name a sewer treatment plant after the 'Hitler President' previous to Orange Man but even Bay Area voters rejected it.
harkin (8fadc8) — 11/20/2020 @ 5:26 pm
Vell, zey named a brandy after Napoleon und a herring after Bismarck, and Dustin has discovered a lip balm they can name after Trump but I'm not telling.
nk (1d9030) — 11/20/2020 @ 5:43 pm
LOL indeed
Dustin (4237e0) — 11/20/2020 @ 5:44 pm
other than you being what you are, why do you say this vaccine is superior?
My understanding is that the Pfizer vaccine is more than 95% effective at this point, and it's also a testament to conservatism, since it's a fast success without government help right?
I'm not expert. For all I know the vaccine turns people into Zombies. But why is it important to you that the Moderna one is better? Is it only because this is good for a politician who already lost his election? If so, really think about that. You're not even going for an election outcome. You're just hoping to make a politician happy. It's a great comment for this post.
You mean someone hinged to facts, I'm sure.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/935563377/why-does-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-need-to-be-kept-colder-than-antarctica
And, you just glossed over the second part of my @8, didn't you.
Tell us what it is. Pretty please with sugar on top.
We'll need to prevail on Dustin, Dana.
You usually are sure.
But I meant someone who seeks to interpret the world in such a way that it favors a politician.
Dana, the truth is out there
Thank you, Dustin!
Is that better or worse than someone who seeks to interpret the world in such a way that it denigrates a politician? Not saying that's you but I see that a lot here, and maybe swinging the pendulum slightly the other way is warranted.
Is that better or worse than someone who seeks to interpret the world in such a way that it denigrates a politician?
Oh definitely worse. Politicians all stink.
I've been made a fool for believing in a politician. I've never been made a fool for denigrating them, and I recommend you give it a try sometime because it is also fun.
Fair point. I will join you in that the next four years at least.
17, 18, 20, 21. Inside jokes violate Section 230. And I think also HIPAA.
lurker (d8c5bc) — 11/20/2020 @ 6:34 pm
Joking aside, the repeal of Section 230 seems to be just about the only thing authoritarians Left and Right agree on. So enjoy these comment threads while we can. They may not be long for the world.
@26: I'll miss all the moral preening.
You are truly better than us, beer. We're lucky to be in your presence while we can.
Leviticus (9d3248) — 11/20/2020 @ 7:28 pm
I'm awed by the humility.
Heh! He does always sound like he's not being paid enough to be here, doesn't he? [Checks ruble to USD. Yup. Lowest in five years.]
That is true. Trumpism has brought the bar of expectations down so low, that something that us nonTrumpy conservatives expect in Republican House and Senate members(as what Mitt does) now looks very impressive and dignified. And Romney will fare quite well electorally in Utah, whose center-right voters differ markedly from a state like Alabama, a very Trumpy state. Utah has a lot of conservatives that aren't as big Trump enthusiasts like in other states. And that shows in Trump's relatively narrow 20 point win of that state. For comparison, Romney won Utah by a 47.9 % Margin in 2012, McCain by 28 % in 2008, and Bush 43 by 45.5 % in 2004. If Romney was a Senator in a state where the Republican base is more Trumpy, he would've probably gone the way of Jeff Flake.
In any case, good for Mitt and a few other members of Congress for not kowtowing to DJT's lame duck insanity.
HCI (92ea66) — 11/20/2020 @ 8:46 pm
They may not have accepted money from the government but they benefited from Operation Warp Speed through the cutting of red-tape and regulations. Without it they would have never gotten approval so fast.
Name it after him? Nope.
Marci (405d43) — 11/21/2020 @ 6:03 am
The Easter vaccine. When Trump said it was going away by Easter, he was right. The guy has a knack for these things.
noel (9fead1) — 11/21/2020 @ 6:06 am
Without it they would have never gotten approval so fast.
I disagree. The whole world would happily pay for this vaccine and Trump really gets no credit for it, aside from being so completely awful at his job that we're more desperate than we'd probably otherwise be. In fact, Pfizer (the successful private business) explained they avoided interacting with Trump's operation to save time. And of course we trust the product more since it has nothing to do with an administration lying to us and promoting tremendous civil unrest for selfish reasons.
Honestly.
Dustin (4237e0) — 11/21/2020 @ 6:21 am
Imagine if we ran around trying to give Obama credit for Honda's new cruise control, because regulations didn't forbid the invention. That's stupid.
Trump didn't work in any lab, he can barely read, and is a total idiot. No, he doesn't get any credit for his great leadership in COVID just because some folks who do work in labs and can read were very smart.
Agree, but have you ever been to Kennedy Space Center? How about what used to be called Cape Kennedy?
beer 'n pretzels (042d67) — 11/21/2020 @ 6:33 am
I like Fort Hood. Nobody did more to decimate the Confederate armies and win the Civil War for the Union in the final critical days of the war than the gallant Hood of Texas.
nk (1d9030) — 11/21/2020 @ 6:42 am
Hood was a Confederate general for those of you from Rio Linda.
D Day was also great, BNP. Thank you for your defense of big government but I think those things are only good when there is no realistic alternative. Here, of course, Trump's COVID leadership made avoiding government involvement the best path.
And if vaccines cause massive problems, and the government covers it up, I'm sure Trump fans will insist he had nothing to do with it. It's the reflexive need to twist everything, make flip flops and 180s every ten minutes for Trump's advantage no matter reality, that amazes me every day.
Why do you bother?
Why do you bother insisting that I disagree with you?
"Romney stands nearly alone."
He speaks for me. Hopefully as more sober up, they will understand how low they were willing to go. Sad.
AJ_Liberty (a4ff25) — 11/21/2020 @ 7:05 am
but mr dustin only a super genius like president donald with a very good you know what would have thought of making a vaccine for a raging pandemic
its obvious to anyone willing to do the analysis
Dave (1bb933) — 11/21/2020 @ 7:06 am
Thank goodness we had Trump. That's the general lesson of 2020. We sure woulda been in trouble without Dear Leader.
Seriously. Is this your job?
How about we name the disease after Trump?
Trump's Flu
Trump Fever
the Trump Plague
Trump's Disease
Captain Trumps (hat tip Stephen King)
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Nic on Weekend Open Thread


A man was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide in the death of Blair Alexander, a woman whose body was found in Murfreesboro in February.
Metro Nashville Police officials arrested Daniel Conklin Thursday and charged him with charged with vehicular homicide, tampering with evidence and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Alexander's body was found on February 17 on Hope Way near West College Street.
According to Murfreesboro Police officials, Conklin had spent time with her at her hotel room and in his vehicle the day before her body was found.
However, police did not release details of the crash or how she was hit.


LAKELAND, Florida (Mar. 17, 2019) - The Kansas City Comets dropped the back half of their two-game Florida road trip this afternoon, falling 12-8 to the Florida Tropics at RP Funding Center in Lakeland, Florida. Bryan Perez and Kiel Williams each scored two goals for the Comets in the losing effort.
The Florida Tropics came out swinging in today's game, scoring four goals in the opening period. Kansas City's Leo Gibson, Bryan Perez and James Togbah each got first quarter goals to keep the game within reach at 4-3.
The second quarter was pretty quiet with neither team having many chances. Florida's Rafa Alves converted the only goal of the 2nd quarter.
Florida scored the opening two quarters of the 3rd period to open up a four-goal lead on the Comets. Kansas City was able to close out the period with two goals from Robert Palmer and the second one from Perez.
Kansas City attempted to come back several times in the fourth quarter, with Kiel Williams scoring two goals and Anthony Grant adding another. Unfortunately, they could not shut down the Tropics offense as well and allowed five Florida goals, two of them coming against the Comets sixth attacker.
The Comets drop to 10-10 on the season as they return home for a vital South Central division rivalry against the St Louis Ambush next Saturday, March 23 at 7:05 p.m. CT. They head into the week with a one-game advantage over the Ambush and Orlando SeaWolves for the division's final playoff spot.
Tickets are available at KCComets.com for Saturday's in-state matchup or by calling 888.9.COMETS.


Everything that could have gone wrong about our trip to Kandy in April 1981 did go wrong. We were due to travel by night, after an evening drinking at the Art Centre Club, but one of our number failed to turn up, so we had to postpone our departure till the next day. I did not want to go back home after having said I was leaving, so I spent the night at Richard's, where his mother was quite used to sudden changes in plans. She was really quite an extraordinary character, remaining calm in the midst of all Richard's various fads and fashions. On a couple of occasions I took her on holidays with us, which meant that Richard backed out, since he hated mixing up his different lives. However, characteristically, he dropped in on both occasions, even roaring up to Wilpattu on his bike for a lightening visit.


The current congressional hearings into Yahoo's role in the arrest of several Chinese dissidents should serve as a cautionary tale for companies doing business in China and other repressive states. On the one hand, I have a lot of sympathy for Yahoo's local employees in China: they really had no reasonable choice but to comply with Chinese law, no matter how repressive that law may be. Yahoo isn't paying them enough to become prisoners of conscience themselves.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for Yahoo's executives, however. China's appalling human rights record and vicious suppression of dissent are well-documented. They should have known that sooner or later someone would use their service for the "free exchange" of information that the Chinese government wouldn't like, and that they'd be stuck between American principles and Chinese laws. The backlash they are now experiencing is a completely predictable consequence of their approach to the Chinese market.
It's easy to say that any company doing business in China has to comply with the same laws, and any company avoiding China on human rights grounds is likely to place itself at a competitive disadvantage. In reality, Human Rights Watch explains, there are laws, and there's a gray area of unwritten understandings. For instance, some companies proactively censor material that they think might be objectionable, while others block only material that has been specifically banned. Some servers are physically located in China, under the jurisdiction of Chinese courts, while some are not. Some companies respond to criticism by changing their policies, some by spinning out Chinese subsidiaries that they cannot control. It's up to customers and shareholders to differentiate between those that try to maintain open information principles under very difficult circumstances, and those that toss principles under the bus as soon as it's expedient.


After I left home and started my own family with Deb, my father gave me a very precious gift--our family Bible. This Bible had been handed down to him by his father from his father's father and it was now my turn to preserve our family heritage. At first I just said thanks and put it away figuring I'd look it over some day. A few years later I pulled out this Bible and began combing the contents over and over again. It contained funeral announcements and flowers pressed between the pages, meticulously folded newspaper clippings, photographs and original letters and telegrams that my ancestors wanted to remember in our family history. The more I read, the more interested I became. I discovered bits and pieces between the pages that gave me glimpses of the lives of people who I had never known, yet were related to me. Along with the Bible my dad gave me I also found some work he did on our family history. I wanted to learn more and I was hooked. Thus began my genealogical trek. I, like millions of others, have a job and family that consumes much of my time. But my free time is now spent researching and conversing with some of the nicest people I have ever known or met, fellow family historians.
The feeling of discovering something new is a great experience. There have been times when researching my family history that I've been overjoyed, discouraged, surprised, disillusioned and utterly and totally confused. And the hearty (and often heart-felt) thanks that I get when I share my discoveries with others always outweighs all these feelings.
Your research into your family history can be an exciting and rewarding experience as well. If you love to solve mysteries or enjoy reading and studying our country's history, you'll find genealogy a great experience. Genealogy and the study of family history is the most popular hobby today, with over 60 million people practicing it. You'd be surprised who participates in this hobby. The preconception used to be that this hobby was only for little gray-haired widows or widowers with little else to do. Nothing could be further from the truth. Genealogy is for everyone and anyone interested in their family's rich past.
Click the play arrow to see Jim's YouTube® Ironman Florida finish to the swim. (Ironman races are 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run (a marathon) all in less than 17 hours).
I have the distinction of MISSING the swim cutoff of 2 hours 20 minutes to swim 2.4 miles in the Gulf by doing it in 2 hours 20 minutes and 46 seconds. It was that close.


Johannes MIchalski lost his arms at age 10, but that didn't stop him from becoming a professional artist.
The basement of Johannes Michalski's St. George home is filled with oil paintings, evidence of a man with diverse tastes and copious artistic talent.
There are Southwest landscapes, internationally famous landmarks, pastoral settings, seascapes, clowns and Jesus watching over a pod of dolphins — the artist's favorite animal.
Michalski was raised Catholic and among his paintings is one of Michael, the archangel.
"'Michalski' means 'son of Michael' so Michael is my art angel," he says.
It all represents a lifetime of work, honing his skills and developing his craft, and he made every stroke with a brush held in his mouth.
"With a Brush in My Mouth" is actually the title of Michalski's autobiography. The artist will turn 80 this month, and for the past 69 years he has lived without arms.
Michalski was raised in Belgium, near Brussels. Born just before the outbreak of World War II, he was the youngest of three children raised by a single mother who was widowed when she was only 24. The siblings spent much of the war living in a convent orphanage.
"She put us in an orphanage because she wanted us all to be safe," he says, adding that his mother was half-Polish.
Although Michalski's family was not Jewish, the Nazis killed nearly 2.8 million Christian Poles during the war. Germany occupied Belgium from 1940 to 1945.
Life in the convent was difficult. There was little food and it was far from Brussels so his mother was only able to visit a few times each year. He and his siblings also endured relentless bullying from the other children.
It was bullying again that would play a part in the tragedy that cost him his arms.
After the war, Michalski's mother ran a café that was popular among local football (soccer) players. One day in 1947, at the age of 10, he was helping his mother with chores at the café when some of his friends convinced him to sneak away and watch a football match with them. However, officials at the game ejected the children because of their disruptive behavior with a whistle.
"It interfered with the game so they kicked us out," he says.
Unable to see the action, one of Michalski's friends suggested they climb a power pole for a better view. He issued a challenge to race to the pole and Michalski won, climbing up first.
A pushy friend was just below him and kept grabbing onto Michalski's shoe. This made him nervous, as he was already somewhat afraid of heights, so he tried to get away from the other boy. He climbed higher and higher, soon reaching the top of the pole. As the other boy pursued him, Michalski became desperate. He reached out and grabbed the power line with both hands.
"Then I don't remember," he says.
Thousands of volts traveled through the 10-year-old's body. Then he fell, plummeting from the top of the pole into a field below.
He was transported to the hospital in a coma. The fall caused a massive head injury. He remained in the coma for two weeks, during which his horribly burned arms became infected and gangrenous. The doctor told his mother they would have to amputate both of his arms to save his life.
When Michalski finally woke from the coma, he was greeted with a new reality: life as an amputee. Both of his arms had been removed at the shoulder.
In those days, children with extreme disabilities did not simply attend school with the other children. So Michalski spent the days with his mother at her café.
A customer came into the café and saw Michalski's rudimentary art project. He gave the boy some pointers for drawing a house. Michalski added a walkway and trees and bushes around the house.
"My mom said, 'You're good. You should become an artist,'" he remembers.
Because he was unable to attend school, Michalski spent the early part of his teenage years in an institution for people with disabilities. His mother sent him magazines and he used them as inspirations for his ongoing pursuit of art, making copies of the images in the magazines.
Despite his dedication to improving upon his artistic skills, those operating the institution told him he would never amount to anything, says Nanci Baldwin, a home health practitioner who is by Michalski's side during nearly all of his waking hours.
When he was 15, Michalski was able to leave the institution. He got a job in a hospital, where he began painting small still life paintings. His work soon began to garner attention.
The most important attention came from an organization called the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide. When his mother contacted the association's director, he told her that the young painter must go to art school. When Michalski's mother said she could not afford art school, the director said the association would pay for it.
So off Michalski went to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Coincidentally, this art school, which was founded in 1711, moved to a former convent and orphanage in 1876.
During his time at the academy, Michalski says he was the only student with a disability. After graduation, he began working for the association that had put him through school. He painted for them, and his art became the basis for prints used in calendars and postcards.
In addition to creating art, Michalski also became a public speaker, traveling all over the world to make presentations for the association. He speaks five languages but he didn't limit his travels to Europe. He has also presented in countries as diverse as India and Iran.
Decades later, Michalski still receives payment from the association, though he has been unable to paint for a few years because of various injuries. The first came a few years ago when he fell down in his home and broke his hip in three places.
No one was with him at his home but he was able to wriggle "like a worm" to the kitchen door and call for help. A neighbor girl heard his pleas and alerted her father. Michalski spent the next eight months in a rehabilitation facility. Since that time, he has also had neck surgery for another injury.
As a result of these injuries, he now uses an electric wheelchair that he operates with his feet. The injuries have also prevented him from painting.
But during his productive years, he was able to paint a new piece about every month, working every day for about seven hours at a time as he meticulously placed brushstrokes with subtle movements of his head.
That ability is still evident in his handwriting. Although he does not paint, he is able to sign copies of his autobiography, complete with short notes to the intended recipients. His name appears with graceful precision — evidence of the skills honed through decades of artistic development.
Recently he has been appearing at events like the What Women Want Expo to sell copies of his books. He signs each of them.
Obviously, it takes more time and effort for him to write with his mouth than for more people who use their hands. This same element of time affected his painting. He was unable to use acrylics because they dried too quickly. That's why he became an oil painter.
"I say I'm disabled but I'm able," he says.
In fact, he even designed the xeriscaping around his Bloomington Hills home on his own, moving each rock with his feet. Baldwin says she was recently out in his yard, hanging Christmas lights on his house, and was overcome by emotions when she realized how much work it must have taken for him to move those rocks.
Of course, he moved to the home 15 years ago — more than a decade before he began using the wheelchair.
But as soon as he says this, he mentions the other artists in his association, many of whom have used wheelchairs for much longer than him. He knows life has been easier for him than for others.
Baldwin doesn't just provide physical care for Michalski. She even takes him to places like California to visit his son and granddaughters or to Las Vegas, where he was able to fulfill a dream by kissing a dolphin.
Although he has it in his mind to live to 103, when he dies, he wants to be cremated and have his ashes scattered in the ocean with the dolphins.
Through his trials, Michalski has managed to stay positive, Baldwin says. He celebrates his passion for dolphins and UFOs. He speaks fondly about his love for animals (like his parrot, Jocko) and his granddaughter, who also has a severe disability ("She's my sunshine.").
"He is, without a doubt, an inspiration in my life," Baldwin says.


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Ривертон () — місто () в США, в окрузі Берлінгтон штату Нью-Джерсі. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Ривертон розташований за координатами  (40.011932, -75.014735).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 2,50 км², з яких 1,72 км² — суходіл та 0,78 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі 755 родин. Було 1112 помешкання

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 1,9 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 2,0 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 21,4 % — особи молодші 18 років, 60,7 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 17,9 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 44,2 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 91,5 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 87,7 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 4,9 % осіб, у тому числі 8,4 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 2,3 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 25,2 %, роздрібна торгівля — 13,6 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 11,4 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 11,2 %.

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Today, any well-crafted marketing strategy relies heavily on videos. With estimates suggesting that by 2019, videos will account for 80% of the global consumer traffic online, no business can afford to miss out on this pivotal component of digital promotion.
With their higher retention rate (80% viewers can recall a video they viewed a month back), amazing click-through rate (a video in an email increases the click-through rate by 200-300%) and wider organic reach (videos on social media have 135% more organic reach than photographs), videos have become the best weapon in your arsenal to cast a spell on your target audience.
However, the primary reason why many businesses shy away from exploiting videos or are inconsistent with their use is because of the complexity and the cost associated with them.
However, with animation videos becoming the flavor of the season, it is easier to jump the gun and reap dividends without making much investment. Their popularity and acceptance could be gauged from the fact that out of the 50 best explainer videos, only 7 are non-animation.
Shooting a short commercial of just 2 minutes is a daunting task. Right from finding the perfect location to finalizing the cast and from acquiring state–of-the-art equipment to incurring huge production costs, there are many reasons why many discourage investing in real-life videos.
In contrast, animation does not require such a huge investment and you do not have to bother about the associated hassles. All you'll need is an expert animator with a decent laptop and you can create masterpieces.
Animation, especially white board videos, is engaging and has an emotive appeal. Precisely because they give the reader the pleasure of watching someone draw something live, which then takes them to the nostalgic days of their childhood. Cartoon characters in particular take them back to the good old days, which according to science, has the power to filter out negative emotions.
Indeed, the above claims are empirically hard to prove and are intangible; however, the statistics associated with animation are surely going to convince you.
According to a study, animation is shared 12 times more than regular content and results in a whopping 70% boost in conversion rates.
Imagine you started off your business with just two services and now have added another one. And now you want to amend your intro video with this added service.
If you have a real-life intro video, there will be no other way other than to redo it as making amends to an already-shot video is impossible. However, with animation, you can easily insert something new or make changes to your video without much hassle and save much of your time, money, and effort that you will otherwise have to spend in going for an entirely new video.
Using animation in marketing is not just easy on the pocket, it significantly increases user engagement too and leaves a positive impact (as nostalgia removes negative emotions) on the psyche of the viewer.
Turning to animation will not just be a smart but the right move also.


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/* global element, by */

'use strict';

var common = require('../../common/common');
var topologyEditorCommon = require('../../topology/topology_editor_common');
var componentData = require('../../topology/component_data');

describe('Editing required properties and checking for topolgy validation', function() {

  beforeEach(function() {
    topologyEditorCommon.beforeTopologyTest();
  });

  // After each spec in the tests suite(s)
  afterEach(function() {
    // Logout action
    common.after();
  });

  it('should be able to see required properties, edit them and make the topology valid', function() {
    console.log('################# should be able to see required properties, edit them and make the topology valid');
    topologyEditorCommon.addNodeTemplatesCenterAndZoom( { compute: componentData.toscaBaseTypes.compute() });
    topologyEditorCommon.checkTodoList(true);

    var node = element(by.id('rect_Compute'));
    node.click();

    topologyEditorCommon.selectNodeAndGoToDetailBloc('Compute', topologyEditorCommon.nodeDetailsBlocsIds.pro);
    expect(element(by.id('p_name_os_arch')).getAttribute('class')).toContain('property-required');
    expect(element(by.id('p_name_os_type')).getAttribute('class')).toContain('property-required');

    //edit the required properties and check again
    topologyEditorCommon.editNodeProperty('Compute', 'os_arch', 'x86_64');
    topologyEditorCommon.editNodeProperty('Compute', 'os_type', 'windows');
    topologyEditorCommon.editNodeProperty('Compute', 'containee_types', 'test', 'cap');
    topologyEditorCommon.checkTodoList(false);
  });
});

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May has been a good month and some interesting things have been happening. Our meeting @ the Coleman library was attended by 4 live participants and one on the phone. It was a lively event in that a long-time member who cannot come out much as she has charge of her husband came out and shared with us. Everyone was eager to talk about what's been going on since our last meeting together, offering support and suggestions to each other. Ms. Barbara successfully secured a meeting place for us at the Wesley Enhanced Living Stapeley in Germantown @ 6300 Greene street beginning on June 21 @ 7:00 pm. This way those who are working will be able to make it to a meeting without sacrificing time to commune with other caregivers. Our purpose is to help caregivers, not to add to their stress levels.
On Saturday, May 14, Enon Tabernacle Baptist church, West, hosted the Alzheimer's Panel Discussion with the Alzheimer's Association and I met Beverly there and also saw Valerie whom I hadn't seen in almost 2 years. It was good to see her looking so good since she went back to work and still cares for her parents. Hopefully she'll be able to attend our meetings again. Beverly, my friend, was at our Germantown meeting as well and she gave us some important information relayed at Enon. She, too, is about to start a new job. Good luck to Beverly, she's taking such good care of her mom.
Immediately after the Enon event, I ran over to The Haven for our Caregivers' Respite Workshop afternoon. That was not well-attended, but the Hero that came out was lucky to receive special focused attention to her and the relief of her stress. It was a good afternoon of healing and sharing conducted by Sis. Kind Essence. Thank you, Kind, for your attentiveness and opening your doors to us all.
Meanwhile, I'm working with my business partner, Mattie Thompson, developing our Age-Friendly. Info Expo - What Caregivers' Families Need To Know. We making great headway as we sign-up vendors and sponsors of our event which will be at First Corinthian Baptist Church, 51st and Pine Streets on Saturday, July 9th. I'll post information once the flyers are ready for distribution. We could use your help with marketing this event, so keep your eyes peeled for the updates as they come out.


The Polaris Center is sited at the southwest corner of two high traffic North Naples thoroughfares – Immokalee Road and Goodlette-Frank Road.
The Polaris Center is sited at the southwest corner of two high traffic North Naples thoroughfares – Immokalee Road and Goodlette-Frank Road – and across the street from The Naples Community Hospital North Campus and Birthing Center. The location provides ready access from both US 41 and Interstate 75 and outstanding visibility from all directions.
This dramatic, three-story structure offers a total of 53,105 square feet of Class A medical and general office space and accommodates important area businesses including Arthrex, the Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida's Collier Clinic and Creekside Pediatrics.


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Q: Why do `keyup` and `if` not work in my code? I want if values into input was equal with one of the words ed Or d Or i Or ei done perform the operation it. i can not change value input value="ed" in first run page. what do i do?
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/ZsYdY/3/
<input type="text" value="ed">

function ticket_check() {
    //var val = 'ticket_code=' + $('.ticket_code').val();
    var input_val = $('input').val();
    if (input_val == 'ed Or d Or i Or ei') {
        $('.code').empty().hide().fadeIn('slow').append('It is ok');
    } else {

            $('.code').fadeOut('slow', function () {
                $(this).hide().fadeIn('slow').append('It is not ok');
            })

    }
}

$('.input').live('keyup change', function () {
    ticket_check();
    var input_val = $('input').val();
    if (input_val == 'ed Or d Or i Or ei') {
        $('.code').fadeOut('slow', function () {
            $(this).hide().fadeIn('slow').append('It is not oooooooookkkkkkkkk');
        })
    }
});
ticket_check()

A: Use the following code to check whether the input equals one of the given suggestions:
//Case-sensitive
'ed d i ei'.split(' ').indexOf(input_val) != -1

//Alternatively, case-sensitive:
['ed', 'd', 'i', 'ei'].indexOf(input_val) != -1;

//Case-insensitive:
'ed d i ei'.split(' ').indexOf(input_val.toLowerCase()) != -1

The concept behind this example is: "Split a string in a list of valid values and check whether the current value occurs".
Example:
function ticket_check() {
    //var val = 'ticket_code=' + $('.ticket_code').val();
    var valid_values = 'ed d i ei'.split(' ');
    var input_val = $('input').val().toLowerCase();
    if (valid_values.indexOf(input_val) != -1) {
        //Rest of code

A: if (input_val == 'ed Or d Or i Or ei') {

needs to be:
if (input_val == 'ed' || input_val == 'd' || input_val == 'i' || input_val == 'ei') {

And $('.input') should be $('input') in your example
Updated Example

A: Two things.... your input doesn't have the class '.input' on it.  So this line should look like this
$('input').live('keyup change', function () {

Also, as others have stated... your or is messed up.  Look at one of the above answers for that.

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Q: iOS - schedule multiple local notifications, UNCalendarNotificationTrigger I want to develop a reminder app that need to send local notification when we set the reminder. I developed some code that triggers only one notification even i set multiple notifications. if i set reminders at 7:30 PM, 7:31 PM, 7:32 PM, the notification is showing only at 7:32PM.
Here is my code
    func scheduleNotification(at date: Date) {
    let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
    let components = calendar.dateComponents(in: .current, from: date)
    let newComponents = DateComponents(calendar: calendar, timeZone: .current, month: components.month, day: components.day, hour: components.hour, minute: components.minute)
    let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: newComponents, repeats: true)
    let content = UNMutableNotificationContent()
    content.title = "Reminder"
    content.body = "To day is the last date for the payment of your card. Please make payment today."
    content.sound = UNNotificationSound.default()
    content.categoryIdentifier = "PaymentReminderIdentifier"
    let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: "ReminderNotification", content: content, trigger: trigger)
    UNUserNotificationCenter.current().delegate = self
    //UNUserNotificationCenter.current().removeAllPendingNotificationRequests()
    UNUserNotificationCenter.current().add(request) {(error) in
        if let error = error {
            print("Uh oh! We had an error: \(error)")
        }
    }
}

//
func notif() {
    let selectedDate = fullDate
    print("Selected date: \(selectedDate)")
    let delegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate
    delegate?.scheduleNotification(at: selectedDate!)
}

i want to deliver notifications every time when i create the reminder.
help me to resolve this problem. thank you...

A: use different identifier in each time. it will work


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Dwork to give Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Temple Beth Am in Parsippany
Debórah Dwork, writer and scholar, will present the annual Joseph Gotthelf Holocaust Memorial Lecture after Shabbat services that begin on Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Am, 879 Beverwyck Rd. in Parsippany. Sponsored by the Joseph...
Dwork to give Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Temple Beth Am in Parsippany Debórah Dwork, writer and scholar, will present the annual Joseph Gotthelf Holocaust Memorial Lecture after Shabbat services that begin on Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Am, 879 Beverwyck Rd. in Parsippany. Sponsored by the Joseph... Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2gDseNN
PNJM Published 12:00 a.m. ET March 30, 2016
Debórah Dwork, writer and scholar, will present the annual Joseph Gotthelf Holocaust Memorial Lecture after Shabbat services that begin on Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Am, 879 Beverwyck Rd. in Parsippany.
Sponsored by the Joseph Gotthelf Holocaust Memorial Fund with support from Temple Beth Am, the lecture is part of the yearly commemoration of Yom HaShoah, a day set aside to memorialize those lost in the Holocaust.
Dwork is the Rose professor of Holocaust history and the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The Strassler Center offers the richest undergraduate program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies to be found in the United States, in addition to a landmark doctoral degree program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies.
A leading authority on Holocaust history, Dr. Dwork wrote the award-winning Auschwitz, which Newsweek voted one of the 10 best books about Poland during World War II. Her books also include the now-classic "Children With A Star" which, like Auschwitz, has been translated into many languages.
Dr. Dwork's current project, "Saints and Liars," is about Americans — Quakers, Unitarians, Jews and secular people — who traveled to Europe to aid and rescue people targeted by Nazi Germany and its Axis allies.
She is a member of the American delegation to the 31-state International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Dr. Dwork earned a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from University College London. Prior to holding the Rose professorship, she was an associate professor at the Yale University Child Study Center.
She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
For more information, call Debbie Lesser, temple administrator, at 973-887-0046.
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